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Kanye West has been living inside an Atlanta stadium while working on his new album

Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro and Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Powers are among 13 authors in the running for the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction

U.S. pop singer Pink has offered to pay a fine given to the Norwegian female beach handball team for wearing shorts instead of the required bikini bottoms

The NBC soap opera “Days of our Lives” is getting its own spinoff for Peacock

A video showing a Montana man confronting Tucker Carlson is circulating widely on social media after the man called the Fox News host “the worst human being known to mankind.”

NBC is not responding to complaints from China over how the network depicted the country's map when its athletes marched in the opening ceremony at the Tokyo Olympics

R. Kelly’s lawyers say they'll fight prosecutors’ bid to tell jurors about allegations beyond the actual charges at his upcoming federal sex trafficking trial

Actor Reid Miller was around 13 years old when he first heard about the death of Jadin Bell

This week’s new entertainment releases include new music from producer and multiinstrumentalist Jack Antonoff and Billie Eilish, whose upcoming “Happier Than Ever” is the second studio album from the 19-year-old superstar

“Sport appeal, not sex appeal” is one mantra Olympic officials push.

Each of "The View" co-hosts will share their must-read books this week.

Dee Snider has moved way beyond Twisted Sister on his latest solo album, “Leave A Scar.”

In “Unthinkable,” the new thriller by Brad Parks, house-husband Nate Lovejoy is presented with an impossible choice

Celebrities having birthdays during the week of Aug. 1-7 include actor Jason Momoa, director and actor Kevin Smith and legendary singer Tony Bennett

Irish singer Ronan Keating has accepted “substantial damages” from a British tabloid newspaper publisher over phone hacking

The soundtrack of the NBA a generation ago has made its way to the Tokyo Olympics

The annual Bayreuth opera festival has returned after a one-year break forced by the coronavirus pandemic, with a woman conducting for the first time in the 145-year history of the event

NBC says an estimated 17 million people in the United States saw the opening of the Tokyo Olympics on Friday

M. Night Shyamalan’s "Old" won a slower weekend at the North American box office

Madrid’s tree-lined Paseo del Prado boulevard and the adjoining Retiro park have been added to UNESCO’s World Heritage list

Rabbi-turned-comic got laughs from Catskill nightclubs to West Coast talk shows

Comedian Jackie Mason, the former rabbi who got laughs from the Catskills to California, has died. He was 93.

Grammy-winning artist Leon Bridges discusses his musical and personal evolution as he releases his third studio album, the “Gold-Diggers Sound.”

Federal prosecutors say R. Kelly had sexual contact with an underage boy.

Skateboarding and freestyle BMX are making their Olympic debuts.

The family of James Brown settles the 15-year battle over his estate.

A California appeals court on Friday disqualified a private judge being used by Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt in their divorce case, handing Jolie a major victory

Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows

LeVar Burton’s quest to become the new host of “Jeopardy!”

Alejandro Sanz just earned another accolade to go with his 29 Grammys: Olympic performer

Grammy-winning artist Leon Bridges discusses his musical and personal evolution as he releases his third studio album, the “Gold-Diggers Sound.”

Top 20 Global Concert Tours from Pollstar week of 7/23/21

Private judge hearing Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s divorce case should be disqualified, court rules

Kanye West barely said a word during his album listening session Thursday night, but the mercurial rapper still had most attendees standing on their feet while hanging on every word of his new project

Country singer Luke Combs is paying the funeral expenses of three young men who saw him perform at a Michigan music festival before they died from accidental carbon monoxide poisoning

As an Atlanta-based photographer who’s covered major sports, breaking news, national politics throughout the United States, Brynn Anderson says she thought all her previous experience prepared her for the Cannes Film Festival

They are an odd couple, all right — Baker Mayfield and Alice Cooper

Disgraced country star Morgan Wallen said it was ignorant of him to use a racial slur

The athletes of the Tokyo Olympics were greeted by a few familiar notes at the opening ceremony

Kanye West barely said a word during his album listening session Thursday night, but the mercurial rapper still had most attendees standing on their feet while hanging on every word of his new project

Police in Beijing say a man has confessed to defrauding Chinese-Canadian pop singer Kris Wu over a teenager's accusation he had sex with her when she was drunk

Organizers say a giant video screen has collapsed at a South Florida stadium, one day before the Rolling Loud hip-hop music festival was set to open

The 40th edition of an Ernest Hemingway look-alike contest has begun at an iconic Key West bar formerly frequented by the author

“Old,” the latest M

Édgar Ramírez wants people to understand that the fight against COVID-19 is not over

The Billie Eilish concert film “Happier than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles” will premiere on the Apple TV+ streaming service globally Sept. 3

New York Times opinion columnist Gail Collins, Associated Press Editor at Large John Daniszewski and journalist Katherine Boo have been elected as co-chairs of the Pulitzer Prize Board

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In a break from tradition, the Film Independent Spirit Awards are moving away from Oscars weekend

Filmmakers Denis Villeneuve and Alanis Obomsawin are among those being honored at the Toronto International Film Festival in September